Appeals: Some of Your Best Friends Will Go to Court for You

The archaic Connecticut law that bans the
prescription or even the use of contraceptives in that state is now
being challenged in the Supreme Court (TIME, Dec. 18). The fact that
the law is stoutly supported by Connecticut's

Roman Catholic clergy, whose flock comprises 46% of the state's
population, is theoretically of no concern to the courtbut a little
counterpressure never hurts. Last week it came from an unexpected
source. The Catholic Council on Civil Liberties offered an amicus
curiae (friend of the court) brief attacking the law and implying that
it...